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      Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship
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      Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship

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      Rethinking the Nation

      Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship

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      Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship book

      Rethinking the Nation
      ByRachel Busbridge
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 2 August 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620022
      Pages 202
      eBook ISBN 9781315620022
      Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Busbridge, R. (2017). Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship: Rethinking the Nation (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620022

      ABSTRACT

      This book examines claims for recognition of cultural difference from immigrant and Indigenous minorities, highlighting the ways in which they intersect with ideas of national community. Busbridge argues that there is an important, albeit under-explored, relationship between nation and multicultural politics of recognition.

      Drawing on the Australian context, the book explores how nation features as a productive, if somewhat ambivalent, discursive resource in contemporary Muslim and Aboriginal struggles to be recognised. In demanding recognition, minorities enter into the business of ‘making the nation’ by positing alternative conceptions of national identity, culture and belonging that are more attentive to their differences and claims. This dynamic is engaged as an expression of ‘postcolonial citizenship’. Postcolonial citizenship is imagined in terms of the ways in which minority groups actualise multicultural realities through rewriting ideas of national community. It underlines the critical importance of revising the power relations that deem some groups ‘more national’ and others less so – and which, in Western multicultural societies, are typically tied to notions of the ‘West’ and its ‘others’.

      This book is an important conceptual, theoretical and political intervention that brings postcolonialism and multiculturalism into dialogue on the increasingly potent issues of nation and national identity. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of sociology, politics, postcolonial studies, culture, identity and nation.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|19 pages

      Rethinking the nation

      chapter 2|27 pages

      Conceptualising nation

      Discourse, democracy and postcolonial debate

      chapter 3|31 pages

      Postcolonial politics of recognition?

      chapter 4|29 pages

      Contingent universals and shifting particulars

      Reorienting recognition struggles

      chapter 5|30 pages

      Beyond clashing civilisations

      Muslim revisions of recognition in popular culture

      chapter 6|32 pages

      Aboriginal Australians and recognition politics

      Reconciliation, apology, sovereignty

      chapter 7|14 pages

      Thinking postcolonial citizenship

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